Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.

Grief isn't all tears.

You can't work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.

I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.

I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

I was at one of the lowest points of my life when we started this film [Dream of Life], except, of course, that I had two great children. But the film is not documenting a decline; it's documenting a rise up - first baby steps and then big steps up. The worst that could have ever happened to me had already happened. And so the film is on the ascent. And I think that gives it a nice spirit.